Tag: short film
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Now on its seventh run, the Queer East Festival has firmly established itself as London’s go-to place for East Asian cinema that explores the queer condition. Participating in the festival’s Future Film Curators Lab, Shimeng Wang presented Acting Up, a series of shorts centred on the relationship between queerness and performance. For many queer people,…
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For their eleventh fair, which opens in Kensington’s Olympia centre this week, Photo London is introducing a moving image programme. Previously held in Somerset House, Photo London has moved to the redeveloped Olympia. The move has allowed for an expanded programme now including a section exclusively for moving-image works. The programme includes films by Melissa…
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By breaking down and re-constituting spectators’ movement through her moving-image works, Melanie Manchot re-defines the social spaces that have historically excluded women. Off the back of her first feature film, STEPHEN, premiering at Liverpool Biennal 2023, In Darkness and Light contextualises Manchot’s video practice with contemporaneous works that chart the German photographer’s skills in moving…
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As the door of Victoria Miro opens to reveal the bright lights of the expansive gallery, the viewer is immediately drawn in, like a moth to a flame. The fluorescent glow beckons, and it may take a moment to notice the dimly lit stairs tucked to the left. With no prescribed order to follow, one…
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Since striking in 2023, artists have brought the rapid acceleration in the use of generative AI in film to the forefront of contract negotiation and cultural consciousness. Filmmaking is a creative endeavour, but it is also a technical practice. Artificial intelligence is beginning to automate the practice of filmmaking in all stages of production, from…
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The first two parts of George Finlay Ramsay’s exploration of community, ritual, and the documentary’s role in mythicisation are screening as part of the Film London Jarman Award 2025 shortlist. Beginning somewhat on the nose, one slowly realises that Flesh, Wax and Glass Pt I & II is investigating more than just a blood-letting ritual.…
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In his haunting new short film The Boy with White Skin (2024), French filmmaker Simon Panay continues his deep, almost anthropological exploration of Africa’s gold mining communities. The 15-minute film sees an albino boy entrusted to a group of gold miners by his father. The boy’s presence and voice in the mine are believed to…
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As London gets colder, the BFI launches London Film Festival, an 11-day blaze that warms Southbank with new cinema. Classed into their ever-enigmatic categories, there’s something for everyone, from Julia Ducournau to Sergei Loznitsa. Bookending these are Rian Johnson’s Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, and Julia Jackman’s 100 Nights of Hero. But…
